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2000s: Once you drive, you’re driven to keep going…
2000s: Once you drive, you’re driven to keep going…
Seven years have passed since Driver ended his campaign against those who double-crossed him. He has left that life behind, changed his name to Paul West and founded a successful business back in Phoenix. But walking down the street one day, he and his fiancee are attacked by two men and, while Driver dispatches both, his fiancee is killed. He’s got no other choice than to go back into his own life again, and aided by his friend Felix, an ex-gangbanger and Desert Storm vet, Driver realises that his past stalks him – and will not stop.
Cities were so various, they wore so many differnt faces. Leaving the easy, spare opulence of Cave Creek and Carefree behind, he drove in past Deer Valey Road and the federal prison to the dry-stalk stretches of outer Pheonix, and it waas as though he drove through not one but half a dozen cities stacked beside and atop on another
Phoenix does rate pretty high in care theft”
Half a century ago, the main drag for Phoenix and a watering hold for those travelling US Highways 70, 80 and 89, Van Buren was not a dusty long drawl of swayback motels streetwalkers and abandoned storefronts and vacant lots overgrown with rubbish, the very image of everything used up, worn out cast off, The city had moved on and left this dry husk behind”
Author/Guide: James Sallis Destination: Phoenix Departure Time: 2000s
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